Integrating Multimedia Note Delivery Software into Classroom Teaching

Present-day engineering students require modern multimedia annotation tools that allowthe recording of the flow of complex computer activities along with the instructor verbal explanationsduring classroom lectures. UGA has developed an extended classroom facility using Silicon Chalksoftware whereas, in real time, students can annotate their personal versions of classroom activitieswhich are being recorded into searchable multimedia files that they can take home to review andmodify. Over Fall 04 and Spring 05 semesters, 2 undergraduate courses and 1 graduate course hadbeen taught under this format and results from anonymous surveys showed that Silicon Chalkrequired high performance PCs which might not be always available at students home and that itsperceived effectiveness also depended on the maturity and motivation levels of the students.